Milan scandal moves closer to Italy's leaders

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Judge Antonio di Pietro, an assistant state prosecutor, announced that all public works contracts in Milan required a bribe to be paid to the political parties. A convicted Socialist Party representative, Mario Chiesa, informed on the system and Judge di Pietro advised industrialists to refuse to pay bribes. Fiat and subsidaries of IRI, the state holding company, were known to use bribes, but the extent and scope of di Pietro's discoveries were unexpected. Claudio Dini, head of the company building the underground, was arrested in June 1992. Arrests of 39 others have been made although trials will need spoken evidence from citizens before sentences may be passed.

Ethical aspects, Political corruption

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Inspectors give a clean bill of health

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The International Atomic Energy Agency asked the US to provide proof of its suggestion that Iran was making an atomic bomb. Agency experts inspected Iran's nuclear facilities under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapon, but found nothing illegitimate. The US continued to attempt to block Iran's nuclear activities, asking other countries not to sell dual-use technoloby nuclear equipment to Iran. Germany has refused to authorise transfer of nuclear equipment to Iran.

United States, International trade, Nuclear industry, United States foreign relations, Iran, Iranian foreign relations, Inspection, International Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear facilities

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Sicilian tragedy, world problem

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Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, two anti-Mafia judges in Palermo, Sicily, were murdered because of their unrivalled knowledge of the Mafia. The Mafia acted to change the balance of power. Falcone had been working on the establishment of a national investigative authority to combat the Mafia. The Mafia is an international problem because of huge profits from the drugs trade and the recycling of large amounts of money in international banks.

Crime, Murder, Mafia, Sicily

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